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Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World
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Via religion, comets, World Wars, nuclear weapons and the Cold War, overpopulation, AI, 9/11, covid, AIDS, pandemics and climate change, Lynskey investigates the historical, political, scientific and cultural reasons for our obsession with the end of the world.
Told with humour and clearly an incredible amount of research, Lynskey provides a sweeping investigation into our desire to play out the very worst that could happen in all our various mediums and all their possible formats, as safe spaces to explore our anxieties.
Having been obsessed with dystopia since watching 1998’s Deep Impact as a (probably too young) girl, I thought maybe there was something a bit wrong with my brain. But reading this, Lynskey has persuaded me that’s it’s entirely normal, and likely inevitable, that the worriers of the world will always need to read and consume stories about its ending; both the nihilistic and hopeful human stories that accompany it.
Told with humour and clearly an incredible amount of research, Lynskey provides a sweeping investigation into our desire to play out the very worst that could happen in all our various mediums and all their possible formats, as safe spaces to explore our anxieties.
Having been obsessed with dystopia since watching 1998’s Deep Impact as a (probably too young) girl, I thought maybe there was something a bit wrong with my brain. But reading this, Lynskey has persuaded me that’s it’s entirely normal, and likely inevitable, that the worriers of the world will always need to read and consume stories about its ending; both the nihilistic and hopeful human stories that accompany it.
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